January 12, 1940 (vol. 50, iss. 78) • Page Image 6
…THE MICHIGAN AILY Students Will Meet .Today In International Center To Found Organization Arab students of the University will gather at 5 p.m. today in the Inter- national Center to organize the…
… first Arabic Culture Society ever to exist on campus, Ismail Khalidi, Grad., ex- vhange student from the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, an- nounced yesterday. Following the example of other na…
…- tional and racial groups, the Arab students intend to establish an organ- ization in which all students and faculty members interested in the study of Arabic culture and language are invited to join…
…. Khalidi empha- ized the fact that not only Arabs are eligible to join. 'Thr will be no politicalor economi issues discussed at the group's meetings, he com- mented. The new society, the name of which in…
… Arabic is Al-Thaqfa, will pursue its study of Arabic culture through debates, lectures, discussions and pub- lications, Khalidi said. There are at present on campus about 25 Arabs, coming from Syria…
…, Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq. The interest in Arabic culturerhere has been increased by the University's establishment of exchange scholar- ships with the American University.- Miners Are Trapped HUNTINGTON…